Ronald Cohen's last words were a bit long, full of words, perhaps because he was too lonely in the deep well, and had a lot of time before he died, just like all lonely old people would show a slightly neurotic chatter.

Aoki can imagine that final scene:

The Swordfish had exhausted all its energy in the deep well, and the officers and men of the ship knew that death was coming, and lay down peacefully in their beds. Only Captain Halsey reluctantly sat in a chair in the command room and looked out the window at the starry sky. At that last moment, I don't know if he felt the insignificance of human beings in front of the vast universe, or deeply regretted his fate, or remembered his hometown in the distance, which was not in the same time and space.

In the end, Ronald was the only one left in the entire ship. He was old, deaf and blind, with the last flashlight in his hand, and walked alone in the dark corridor of the warship's cabin, flanked by the corpses of officers and soldiers.

He walked into the captain's room, and with the little energy left to light the wall lamp, in the dim light, he took out a pen and paper, and wrote down what he wanted to say but couldn't say.

Fortunately, his handwriting was not as unpleasant as he himself said, but on the contrary, it was very beautiful, pleasing to the eye, and his words were not vulgar, enough to explain some concepts and things that were very difficult to explain clearly.

When it comes to the Alliance of the Awoken, the first page has just been written, and this page must be peeled over to see the next page.

However, the paper has been lying on the table for hundreds of thousands of years, and although Cohen says that it has been preserved for 10,000 years, no one can guarantee that you will not have an accident when you touch it with your hands.

People all look to Mrs. Larry, she's an archaeologist and she's good at dealing with this kind of thing.

Situ and Aoki gave up their seats, and Mrs. Larry came to the table, and Su Huilan and Petru both held torches to help her light it.

To uncover the paper, first remove the red coral branch that is pressed against the paper. Corals of pure color are precious, but they are of little value at this moment, so Mrs. Larry's attention is all on the paper, and her right hand casually reaches for the coral branch, ready to take it away.

However, as soon as her hand grasped the coral branch, she screamed in horror, as if she had caught a red-hot soldering iron, and reflexively retracted. Such a situation rarely happened to the lady, who was always calm and serious, so everyone was taken aback.

"What's the matter, ma'am?" Petru asked with concern.

Mrs. Larry shook her head and said, "I don't know...... That thing is hot...... I thought my hands were burned to ashes, but ......," she looked at her intact fingers, "it's so weird!" ”

"I'll see." Petru didn't care about other people's eyes, took Madame's hand, and rubbed it gently, "It's okay, Madam, you're just too tired!" ”

Others also thought that Madame was hallucinating. Alice, as Madame's assistant and also has considerable experience in organizing artifacts, stepped forward to help Madame pick up the coral branch on the paper, but her reaction was even more exaggerated than that of Mrs. Larry, screaming and falling back, being held up by Anderson.

Everyone thinks something is wrong, if there is no electricity on it, it is hell!

In the dimly lit cabin, there were only a few torches that were not very vigorous, and the flames flickered and flickered. Ronald Cohen's stiff face looked pale and horrible in the firelight, as if a white mask had been applied to it, revealing two black holes in the eye sockets, and the fire could not shine through, only as if there were ghosts dancing in it.

"What's wrong?" Boris, who was left behind, stretched his head and neck, eager to reach for it.

"Don't move Boris!" Ivan stopped, "Listen to Mr. Stone and Mr. Aoki." ”

Aoki stood a little closer to the table than Situ. He stepped forward and reached for the coral branch, and as soon as he touched the red thing, a hot, iron-like temperature came from his fingers, making him feel the urge to withdraw his hand. But he held back.

Then, the burning sensation spread along his arm, upward, through his chest, and into his other hand. The ebony scepter of the Sanchi tribe in his hand burst into flames.

Wherever the heat passed, his flesh burned to ashes and was reduced to nothing, leaving only the bones of the forest. Now, he was a demon who was normal everywhere else, but there were only bones left in his arms and chest, and he held a fiery scepter in his hand.

Aoki certainly knew that it was all his own feelings, or what could be called hallucinations, and in the eyes of others, his ebony staff was not on fire, and his body was intact.

It's a mental effect, just like hypnosis.

The special spiritual power on the red coral branch affects the person who touches it, giving people the illusion of "heat". Aoki had thought of this from the beginning, but the strange thing was that the spiritual power on this thing seemed to have some connection with the scepter in his hand, and it was like setting fire to the wood.

In his mind, he suddenly remembered a sentence from an ancient scripture: Fire is born of wood, and disaster will come.

As for why he thought of this, he didn't know.

He already knew that this thing, like the ebony staff in his hand and the silver staff in Situ's hand, was a special item that could control the spiritual force field, and it might also be a token of power of a certain savage tribe.

And judging from the psychic sensations that occur in the hands, there is a certain correlation between these scepters. Will it be like the Chinese Five Elements Doctrine, which has a relationship between life and restraint?

The fire did not burn all the time, and the coral branch soon became an ordinary coral branch, and it was evident that it was not a complete coral branch, but half a coral branch in terms of length and fracture.

Aoki carefully picked up the coral branch, looked at it carefully, and handed it to Situ. Situ took it and immediately frowned. Aoki could tell from his expression that the burning sensation of the fire that Situ felt seemed to be stronger than his.

"It's okay, there is spiritual power attached to this thing, which affects the perception of your brain, and it is actually not hot." Situ comforted everyone for a few words, then took the coral branch, looked at the people around him, and finally chose Su Huilan, "Neither Aoki nor I can hold it, only you are suitable here, and you will keep this thing for the time being." ”

"Me?"

Su Huilan looked at Aoki suspiciously, and when she saw Aoki nodding at her, she stretched out her hand. Situ put the coral branch in her hand. Her hand trembled visibly, but she caught it steadily.

"Madame, go ahead with Cohen's last words." Situ said.

Mrs. Larry nodded, carefully opened the first page of the letter with her hand, looked at the second page, and read it aloud:

"By the time you see this page, you've got half of the 'Fire Soul' - oh, the coral-like piece pressed against the paper.

That proves that there must be awakened among you. If you are not an Awakened One, or even an ordinary Awakened One, you will not be able to remove this half of the 'Fire Soul', because the spiritual power of the fire attached to it will make you reluctant to touch it.

If you must touch it, it will burn your consciousness and turn your 'real life' to ashes before your brain instructs your muscles to pick it up.

What I'm going to talk about next is that you must be an awakened person and have a strong awakening power to do it, otherwise you can only sigh at a loss when you know it, and it will not help the great cause of saving humanity and the universe.

The other half of the 'Soul of Fire' is hidden in the spire of an ancient church on Earth. Unfortunately, we didn't have complete confidence in entering Ramla, so we didn't get the other half of the Fire Soul out of the church spire, otherwise, the two Fire Souls would have merged into one, and the Swordfish might not have fallen into the deep well.

I activated the Fire Shrine with half of the 'Fire Soul', I wonder if the other half of the 'Fire Soul' on the distant earth will have sense? Perhaps a fire broke out on the spire of that church......

Forgive me if that great church on the Île de la Cité catches fire, if the spire of art that towers over the world finally collapses!

It's not much of a loss of civilization compared to what we're doing, but I'm sorry! Because disaster could have been avoided.